REBORN AS THE FAT GIRL THEY HATED

Daisy Reed gave up everything for Seth Ford her career, her ambition, her sense of self to become the perfect wife. On their third anniversary, she comes home early and finds him with her stepsister Beth. In the confrontation that follows, cornered on the stairs, she’s shoved. She doesn’t survive the fall. She wakes up five years earlier, twenty-three years old, on the morning of a choice she made without thinking twice the first time. This time, she thinks twice. She turns down the job Seth wants her to take. She keeps the strategy and analytics career she once buried for him. And when Seth’s biggest rival, Harvey Carlos, offers her a position at Carlos Holdings, she takes it not for revenge, not yet, just to never be small again. She doesn’t know Harvey has secrets of his own: he loved her in silence for years, said nothing, and died in a reckless accident the night he learned she was gone. He doesn’t know why the new hire unsettles him so completely, or why grief he’s never earned keeps surfacing when she’s near. As Daisy rebuilds herself into someone Seth can no longer control and Beth can no longer overshadow, old resentments curdle into open war. Beth, desperate to reclaim the spotlight, makes a play for Harvey and is publicly, humiliatingly rejected, a wound that pushes her and Seth toward something far more dangerous than gossip. Somewhere between boardrooms and unspoken history, Daisy and Harvey are drawn together despite everything working against it. But the truth neither of them has said aloud that they’ve both already died once for this is coming, and it will force them to decide if a love that’s already cost one life is worth risking.